[JakeyBoy]

More to support a possible HM swap between Australia and the United Kingdom: The UK version of Big Brother has scheduled a live special for Monday 29 May. The local time in Australia would be early Tuesday morning.

This gives enough time for a flight to the UK following the Big Brother Australia special this Sunday night.

The producers could possibly follow the swap up with the one hour daily show scheduled for Tuesday 30 May.

[ThaGazBoi]

OOO that would be great!!

[texbex]

eh I dont get it

[Kore]

yeh! that wud be mint!

[shauny007]

Yeah but this time if there is a swap like how we did with the African one, make it someone of each sex from each house, so take away 1 guy and 1 gal, and give us the same in return.

Oh my god imagine if the other house got Pete & lisa, that would just be pure brilliant, what a shock

If a swap even does occur,

[shauny007]

Or send Sezar and send back live feeds to the UK house so Imogen can see him flirting and getting off with all the other girls

[Arneldo]

FOR: Why a swap might occur!

BB Aus have wanted to do a swap for ages and have had ex-BBUK HMs guest on the series. They also make several references to BBUK on the official website.

The schedule seems to fit. There is a BB Aus special on Sunday night, and then a BBUK live special on Monday night (Tuesday morning Australian time) - plenty of time for a flight.

The extended Australian show on Tuesday could feature the Australian HM moving into the BBUK house - or the UK housemate moving into the BBAus house live! The UK HM could leave our house on Sunday lunchtime (late Sunday Aus time) during Big Brother's Little Brother.

Also, this year BBUK is facing the toughest ratings war in it's history (and so far, the launch week has outrated all previous series!) - and this week it faces it's toughest battle with ITV1 screening Celebrity X Factor head to head with Big Brother for eight consecutive nights from Monday. BBUK will be raising it's game to make sure the great start isn't overshadowed by The X Factor!

Finally, why it might happen now is that next week the winning "Golden Ticket" housemate will enter the house. These have been selected at random by finding tickets hidden inside Kit-Kats - and thus haven't gone through the usual audition process. Having a passport is not a requirement of entering the Golden Ticket competition, so doing it now would mean it's done and dusted before the Golden Ticket housemate enters the house



AGAINST: Why it just won't happen!

The main argument against is the reasons given three years ago about why BB Africa was chosen.

At the time producers said they swapped with Africa as both series began at the same time, both countries were in roughly the same time zone and the flights were just a few hours. On all these counts, the idea of a UK/Australian swap could be ruled out!

It be unlike BBUK to repeat such a big twist - considering it didn't get an overwheliming response first time around and many thought the twist gave eventual winner Cameron too much of an advantage.

It also seems really early in the UK series to do such a big twist - we are only one week in. However, it's possible that they might do it early so it's less of a factor when coming to determining the winner.

Also, the BBUK live special on Monday could just be replacement housemates for the two who quit last week - and it's probably being done on Monday as it would take attention away from the launch of Celebrity X Factor.

There are rumours now we'll get twin brothers - Marcus and Andrew - but it's unclear whether they'll secretly switch places or just both go in. Another regular rumour is that two former housemates will move into the house - though this doesn't seem like the sort of thing BBUK would actually do.

[BB_GOD]

i really hope that they dont do it... i wasnt particularly (i cant spell tht word) excited the first time that happened

[Mike]

I can't see a swap happening personally, would be good if it did though.

[JakeyBoy]

Originally posted by bb4eva
Also, the BBUK live special on Monday could just be replacement housemates for the two who quit last week - and it's probably being done on Monday as it would take attention away from the launch of Celebrity X Factor.

Replacements which are from our house!

[BB-Rocks]

It would be good but i dont think it will happen